Emerging & Frontier Markets Archives

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

Award Winners

World’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers 2014

GOLD STANDARD By Rebecca Brace and Anita Hawser Global Finance presents the winners of its annual Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers awards. Global multinational corporates may have come out of the 2008 global financial crisis better off than the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Woos Foreign Investors

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is one of Africa’s last old-school dictators. But he’s provingthat he may be able to change—for the better.In the decade ending in 2008, Zimbabwe’s economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.1%. Then,in2009, the country adopted the US dollar. Since then, growth has averaged nearly 8% per year...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Bangladesh: New Parliaments Legitimacy

MILESTONES By Thomas Clouse Bangladesh held national elections in early January despite escalating political violence and a boycott by opposition parties. The ruling party, the Awami League, easily kept control of parliament, with its candidates winning 232 of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Dubai Gets World Expo Fever

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt The Dubai Financial Market was one of the best-performing equity markets in the world...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: Is The Future MINT?

DEAR READER FEBRUARY 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 2 In 2001, Jim ONeill, then chief economist and head of asset...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging-Markets Debt Issuance Declines

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The volume of emerging-markets corporate debt offerings declined 6.2% in 2013 from a year earlier, even as global high-yield debt issuance set new records, according to Thomson Reuters. Issuers in just three ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Free Bird: Yukos Oils Ex-Chief Released

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia’s most high-profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil—at one point Russia’s largest oil company—was abruptly released. He had served about 10 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging & Frontier Markets

World’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers 2014

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Woos Foreign Investors

Bangladesh: New Parliaments Legitimacy

Dubai Gets World Expo Fever

Editor’s Letter: Is The Future MINT?

Emerging-Markets Debt Issuance Declines

Free Bird: Yukos Oils Ex-Chief Released

IsraelPalestine Gas Accord

Middle East Banking Legend Retires

New Version Of Socialism In Cuba

Singh Backs Gandhi For Top Job

Suez Holds Key To Egyptian Economy